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dselke.bsky.social
phd student in sociology of language. interested in sociophonetic methods of description and cultural sociological accounts of thought & behavior.
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Every one of these guys thinks they’re Oppenheimer mixed with Andrew Carnegie and they own something called SplortDotCom that got bought by Boozoo

submitted 19 days ago • 361 comments

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submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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Donate to Wikipedia.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

likewise linguistics: we have a lot of science about what pronouns are and how they work, and we need to get extremely on the same page about communicating that to non-linguists

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

reminder to check your spam now and then everyone. you never know what you'll miss out on

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

It is very funny to end this with "Substance matters"

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

I need people to understand that the Gaiman piece won’t make skeptics—including Gaiman fans—more supportive of the survivors. There is no amount of evidence is enough for misogynists who think rape is fine. It’s just going to weaponize them with more details to harass, trigger, and retraumatize.

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

A lot of people are telling me the culture war is, in fact, just a subtle distraction for the real class war on going. Huge if true. Not something I'd heard before, so I will have to look into it. But the ramifications are quite large if that should turn out to be the case. Will keep yinz informed.

submitted 44 days ago • 11 comments

Smiling Girl, a Courtesan, Holding an Obscene Image, by Gerrit van Honthorst, 1625

submitted 50 days ago • 25 comments

me when someone says something sooooo funny www.seeingspeech.ac.uk/ipa-charts/#...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

this genre of absurd substitution comments is so evergreen. I actually anticipated this one while working on my tight five many years ago

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 65 days ago • 78 comments

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

submitted 67 days ago • 380 comments

I've been warning about this for a while. Sooner than you think U.S. economists may have to go Argentine, cobbling together alternative estimates of inflation, employment and so on because the official data have been corrupted.

submitted 68 days ago • 113 comments

holy crap just watched the press conference...he's actually small...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Largely agree with this. It definitely seems more that certain structural configurations create paths of least resistance. Reminds me of an ever-salient Pynchon line in Gravity's Rainbow: "a million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death, and some of them even know it"

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

PSA: You can run a google search sans AI summary by adding the search term “-AI” to any query.

submitted 100 days ago • 8 comments